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So I play Ruzzle (like Boggle), its kind of fun. As a joke for one of my friends I developed an application to give me the list of longest playable words on the board, down and dirty. Originally, I wanted to do it right, and generic, but alas, I didn't want to spend a lot of time on a joke so I hard-coded the graph. At first it felt dirty and wrong, but then it felt, right?

Here was my approach (warning, code, avert your eyes ye lounge is for no code onliers. Oh, and DD, this isn't a trubechet) This is not presented for critique or questions, merely to illustrate how the hard-code actually worked well enough.

First create an object to hold a letter

publicclass Node{
public string letter;
public List<Node> nodes;
}

Now take a pen and paper, and number the grid starting left to right, top to bottom, zero through 16 (like an array). Then make a list of 16 elements:

It might feel good now, but when your friends starts to ask for new features on your joke you're going to have a hard time...
Love the "All users always want Excel" signature by the way. That is so true

About 13 years ago, I wrote a program that converts images into music. While not to everyone's taste, and actually pretty crappy about 20% of the time, the music produced was recognizable as such.

Well. After a dozen years of actually paying attention to what I'm doing and learning all sorts of programmy stuff, I'm just now finishing up a rewrite in C# (the original was Delphi) and...it sounds like crap. The conversion it performs is much too accurate, or something.

If I remember rightly, one of the puzzles in the Perplex City game was a picture which, when put through a processor to convert pictures to sound, produced the right answer - personally, I couldn't make anything out of what I heard when I did it.

I'll try to remember to look it out tonight.

EDIT - or even a quick look now - here[^] - the solution will be towards the end.

Just say the music it creates is experimental or avant-garde and you won't have to change a thing
There's even a 'music' genre called noise and the idea is for the listener to NOT have a pleasant listening experience.
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